On Fox's so-called "Business Network," host Stuart Varney complained that most black protests are over "perceived slights." His guest blamed President Obama.

Varney didn't even try to hide his animosity toward African Americans in this Fox Business Network discussion about protests in Chicago over the shooting death of African American teen Laquan McDonald - that had nothing to do with business.

The discussion began with a clip of Megyn Kelly’s hypocritical complaint about a Chicago protester staring at a police officer. Varney piled on: “A protester right in a cops face staring him down, looking like he tried to be provocative."

Varney brought on Rod Wheeler (who was so quick to incorrectly blame what turned out to be a police officer’s suicide on comments from #BlackLivesMatter protesters and Obama).

“What we saw last night in Chicago is really just indicative of what’s been happening here in the United States over the past three to four years,” Wheeler told Varney. “Police departments have to do a better job at policing themselves and then, cities and elected officials need to do a better job when they decide to do their investigations and they need to reach decisions much quicker.”

Then Wheeler dubiously claimed, “The only reason we saw what took place last night, Stuart, …in Chicago is because it took them 10 months to make a decision and do their investigation.”

Really? If only this decision had happened quicker, Wheeler knows there would have been no outrage or protests?

Varney, however, deliberately changed the focus of the discussion in order to smear African Americans.

VARNEY: If the response of the black community to a perceived slight - and I don’t mean to downplay it by saying “a perceived slight,” this was an extraordinary situation. If the reaction of the black community is always going to be violent confrontation that's a problem, is it not?

In fact, staring at a police officer is not a “violent confrontation.” Even Fox News has acknowledged that the protests were not violent last night.

Yet Wheeler agreed with Varney. Wheeler did say, “It’s “not always going to be violent confrontation.” But then he opened the door for Obama bashing by saying, “This is the perfect time for our nation to come together and that’s why, Stuart, I’ve said for the longest, we need elected officials, we need leaders to bring people together and not keep us separated.”

“What about President Obama here?” Varney asked. “You say we need leaders who will bring us together. Has President Obama brought us together in the last seven years? Blacks and whites?”

“No that’s my opinion. I mean, I’ve said it before, absolutely not,” Wheeler replied. “We need real leadership in the White House, we need real leadership on Capitol Hill. I think President Obama has done the best he could but the best he could is not good enough."

Wheeler claimed that the image of a protester staring at a police officer is an image of America “in crisis” - because Obama.

WHEELER: The label that goes with that America is in crisis. …That’s what we see all across the country: black males, police, white males and it’s gonna be like that, Stuart, until we get some leadership in the white house.

“That’s a most unfortunate prognosis but we welcome your honesty," Varney said.

So there you have it. It was Obama’s fault that a black protester was staring in the face of a white police officer.

Watch it below, from the November 25 Varney & Co., on Fox Business Network.

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In November 2014 it seems the only Chicago protests were because of Ferguson’s decision to not charge the cop that shot Michael Brown. Maybe this killing wasn’t protested because the facts weren’t in. And it seems the timing of the arrest of VanDyke was largely because the prosecutor never thought the video was going to be released. Fox should be proud that public information laws override a $5,000,000 settlement. These hateful talking heads had their talking points ready within minutes of announcing the video release.